Israeli Quotes - Page 14

• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  Clare Short

  Believe, People, Division

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• Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

  Stephen Hadley

  Squares, Democracy, Tahrir Square

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• Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.

  Marwan Barghouti

  Agreement, Years, Land

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• Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Enemy, Important, Common

  "Arafat reluctantly accepts Israeli, U.S. security demand". www.cnn.com. August 11, 1997.

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• I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

  Ariel Sharon

  People, Safety, Compromise

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• I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

  Guy Oseary

  Citizens, Born, American Citizens

  "To Those Seeking Freedom in the Middle East" by Guy Oseary, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Speech, Littles

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• If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

  Abdallah II

  Military, Looks, Conflict

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• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Spring, Emotional, Issues

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Oil, Fire

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• I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

  Khaled Mashal

  Community, Israeli Occupation, Want

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• The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Issues, Rights, People

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• It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Track, Important, Overcoming

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• Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Twenties, Citizens, Criteria

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

  Barack Obama

  Military, People, Safe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Democracies Have

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

  Elliott Yamin

  Baby, Dad, Moving

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• The old will die and the young will forget.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Forget, Young, Palestinian

  "The great catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

  Rafael Eitan

  Israel, Land, Roaches

  New York Times, April 14, 1983.

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• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

  Nahum Goldmann

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

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